Also known as Gosau, Neue Welt, Weiner Neustadt
Where: Niederosterreich, Austria (47.8° N, 16.2° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 30.3° N, 27.0° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Grünbach Formation (Gosau Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.6 - 72.2 Ma)
• Lower Gosau Subgroup
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; coal and sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Suess & Pawlowitsch in 1870
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: E. Bunzel. 1870. Notice of a fragment of a reptilian skull from the Upper Cretaceous of Grünbach. Quarterly Review of the Geological Society of London 26:394 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 48720: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.03.2005, edited by Richard Butler, Roger Benson, Patricia Holroyd and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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"Chelonia indet." = Testudines3
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Pterosauria indet.2 pterosaur UWPI 2349/103, five larger and six smaller fragments of wing phalanges.
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Ornithocheirus bunzeli n. sp.8
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"Struthiosaurus austriacus n. sp." = Struthiosaurus austriacus3, "Crataeomus lepidophorus n. sp." = Struthiosaurus austriacus8, "Crataeomus pawlowitschii n. gen. n. sp." = Struthiosaurus austriacus8, "Pleuropeltus suessii n. gen. n. sp." = Struthiosaurus austriacus8, "Danubiosaurus anceps n. gen. n. sp." = Struthiosaurus austriacus3
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Rhadinosaurus alcimus n. gen. n. sp.8
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"Iguanodon suessi n. sp." = Rhabdodon suessi3, Zalmoxes sp.7, "Oligosaurus adelus n. gen. n. sp." = Rhabdodon priscus8, "Ornithomerus gracilis n. gen. n. sp." = Rhabdodon priscus8
"Iguanodon suessi n. sp." = Rhabdodon suessi3 Bunzel 1871 rhabdodontid Lectotype right dentary (PIUW 2349/2); dDentary tooth (PIUW 2349/3); maxillary tooth (PIUW 2349/4); fragmentary parietal (PIUW 2349/54); fragmentary left scapula (PIUW 3518); fragmentary ?radius (PIUW 3517); ?manual ungual (PIUW 2349/38); fragmentary left femur (PIUW 2349/3); fragmentary ?right tibia (PIUW 2348/35) listed by Osi et al. (2012)
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Megalosaurus pannoniensis n. sp.8
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Champsosauridae indet.1 Cope 1876 champsosaur 2349/55a, 2349/55b (vertebral centra), referred to Iguanodon suessi by Bunzel (1871)
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Araeosaurus gracilis n. gen. n. sp.8
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